What was your favorite motivational poster growing up?

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SHDrivesOnTrack@reddit

Commentary on this poster from Marge Simpson

https://youtu.be/9y6a4LDWKZU

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el_smurfo@reddit

I used to collect demotivational posters and post them all over the office. That was the Glory Days of office humor

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sugarlump858@reddit

I get my husband a demotivational calendar every Christmas.

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A small company I did some IT side work for back in the late 90's got bought. New corporate overlords put up some motivational posters, and corporate propaganda. Someone got a few Demotivational posters, framed them with the same style as the corporate ones, and hung them up nice like the others. They were up for quite a while before the new management noticed them.

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Elowan66@reddit

I had a 4x6 sized one on my desk for over 10 years about being unimportant in a big company. Bosses never read it and thought it was a positive motivational one.

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sugarlump858@reddit

My favorite

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ihatepickingnames_@reddit

Mine too!

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Affectionate-Dot437@reddit

The GOAT is: https://despair.com/collections/demotivators?srsltid=AfmBOooUPiwUbqXhN_hb9qtbQe1UK1omD9k4pN9EhaJF8HmsM9LzGuY9

They have posters, coffee cups, calendars and tshirts all with the power to keep your ego and aspirations in check...

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ComfortFit1524@reddit

"You can't have nightmares if you don't have dreams."

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YetagainJosie@reddit

"There are plenty more fish in the sea.

But you're not in the sea. You're in the desert. Alone......"

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scruffigan@reddit

@DisappointingAffirmations on Instagram is pretty good for this.

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el_smurfo@reddit

You dropped this _

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SimplePart4061@reddit

Billboard The Indian with a tear. Late1960s vacations to Florida 65 years later😥🌎

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ComfortFit1524@reddit

He was not a Native American, but an Italian from Sicily.

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SimplePart4061@reddit

🫡Trivia

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ComfortFit1524@reddit

And true.

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HagOfTheNorth@reddit

So there was one that actually legitimately helped me. It had a confused chimpanzee on it and the text was “Stop asking for bananas from people who have no bananas. Some people just don’t have what you’re looking for.”

I saw it in an elementary school when I was a kid and I never forgot it.

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meekonesfade@reddit

I had one like that! It had pink flowers (maybe cherry blossoms?), a black and white kitten was in the tree, and it said "The only thing harder than holding on is letting go." Either came from Scholastic or the stationary store.

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Beret_of_Poodle@reddit

Definitely not this one.

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sattersnaps@reddit

The one where the baby is covered in spaghetti and the bowl is on its head, like a hat.

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dendenwink@reddit

"Determined or not, that cat is long dead" - Marge Simpson

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Maximum-Document-396@reddit

Mine had Heather Locklear on it

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Status-Effort-9380@reddit

Mine was a sticker - affixed to my history notebook. I couldn’t find it in sticker format, but here it is as a pin.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/375601321242?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&mkrid=711-127632-2357-0&ssspo=L_-WvC4gTYS&sssrc=4429486&ssuid=lGlFYhbZS0S&var=&widget_ver=artemis&media=COPY

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JankroCommittee@reddit

??

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ConsumerAnthemist@reddit

?? Heather Thomas of TV's Fall Guy

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JankroCommittee@reddit

I know exactly who she is- questioning whether it counts as motivational. We all had this poster.

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jfdonohoe@reddit

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SimplePart4061@reddit

😖

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OctavariusOctavium@reddit

This was a good motivator

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Gibder16@reddit

Haha! Yep. Never got that Lamborghini by the way.

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OctavariusOctavium@reddit

Me neither, never will

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AdequateEggplant69@reddit

I dunno about posters, but those “Grape Job!” stickers kept me going.

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cartographer_emerita@reddit (OP)

Scholastic Book Fairs had all that good shit! Scratch and sniff stickers were my jam.

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Appropriatelylazy@reddit

I don't think I can actually call it "motivational," but I had a poster I bought in like 9th grade that thought was sooooo funny and clever of me at the time, it said: Those of you who think you know everything are annoying to those of us who do!

Because I was just as sarcastic then as I am now! 🤣

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ComfortFit1524@reddit

/r/madlads

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Niso81@reddit

Roaring Kitty, DFV——GME💎💎

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ComfortFit1524@reddit

Successories was a store in the 90s-2000s that was full of motivational stuff like this.

For being surrounded by motivational stuff all day long, I expected their employees to be totally awesome and motivated all the time. They were not, and the company went out of business. I guess the stuff didn't work after all.

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Noodnix@reddit

I remember appreciating this classic at my friend’s house.

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TheGreatPlumGorilla@reddit

I had this poster! I would have probably not remembered if I didn’t see this.❤️

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Ice_Pirate_Zeno@reddit

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jogeek@reddit

Classic!

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kingtermite@reddit

Exactly the one I was thinking of.

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ntengineer@reddit

This was mine too

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Low_Industry2524@reddit

If you don't make it, it's your own damn "vault." That's a bitch slap of truth right there.

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Slight_Succotash9495@reddit

A bunch of kittens in a bathroom with cigs & it said smoking in the boys room!

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FocalorLucifuge@reddit

This one. And it's a lesson that many people need to learn, unfortunately.

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dustymag@reddit

Pobody's Nerfect!

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shrapmetal@reddit

Hauling ass! In my 30s I met and became friends with the brunette. *

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Inamibles@reddit

Depends on the motivation.

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StupidOldAndFat@reddit

Farrah.

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kristenevol@reddit

I remember having my first pap/pelvic exam so I could get the pill when I was 19. The planned parenthood I went to had this poster on the ceiling. Such a weird experience.

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-JTO@reddit

A high school math teacher had one that I recall had Care Bears on it that said “Be Your Own Best Friend.”.

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kevbayer@reddit

Growing up I don't think I paid them any attention.

Now, I prefer the demotivational posters.

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Someoneoverthere42@reddit

“Remember, you can’t spell FAILURE without U R A!”

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Habbersett-Scrapple@reddit

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ElJefe0218@reddit

The Madonna 'Boy Toy' poster in my locker.

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freshcoastghost@reddit

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throdon@reddit

look at this poster in the K&P video. https://youtu.be/6haBMbtXSLg?si=uwnpkUrACKkL-r57

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somewhatdim-witted@reddit

Ha! I’d never seen that one

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Tim-no@reddit

This poster was on the ceiling at my dentists office

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crhs78@reddit

Probably my dad posting notes telling me to do xyz before he got home or I was getting my ass beat. Those were quite motivational

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Taco_Cat_Cat_Taco@reddit

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JTSlinger@reddit

I always thought those posters were bullshit! Maybe they are the reason Gen Xers are cynical.

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Jebgogh@reddit

I had a large sports illustrated surfing poster on the wall along with tons of skateboard mag pages. I lived in Albuquerque and hated it. Fantasy was CA specially as my favorite activity was skateboarding. Parents got pissed cause when I got pissed one night I wrote lyrics from Black Sabbath paranoid on it in sharpie and wanted me to take it down but I didn’t. It did motivate me to leave and come to SoCal. The fantasy wasn’t real and I was never a strong enough swimmer to surf but I am still here and love where I live.

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M23707@reddit

I would literally hang that poster on co-workers doors when I knew they had a challenging day …. of course these young folks knew the reference! 🤣

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BuckyD1000@reddit

There is only "Keep On Truckin"

All others are inferior.

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